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Bamboo charcoal used for cooking is good for your health and for the environment
Bamboo is a fast growing, renewable, widespread, environment enhancing resource. Bamboo fields are very dense, allowing for greater yield per acre and higher availability.
Under the right circumstances, bamboo can grow as much as two feet in a single day, and since bamboo plants are never clear cut, some species can produce for over 60 years.  And as well as being highly renewable and extremely hardy, bamboo is 30% more efficient at producing oxygen than traditional timber.

Bamboo's role in construction is substantial, with hundreds of millions of people living in houses made from bamboo. In Bangladesh, for example, 73 percent of the population lives in bamboo houses.  In addition, bamboo has long been used as an assembly material in China. Due to its flexibility, durability and strength, it has been used for scaffolding in the construction of buildings up to 70 stories high.